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  1. Nottinghamshire - SAM THORNEYCROFT

    Date released
    Mar 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346364
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A visit to Sam Thorneycroft, a former director of Thoresby Colliery. NCB Commentary - This is Thoresby, which produces a million and a half tons of coal a year ... ... more than any colliery...

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  2. SCOOP

    Date released
    May 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345745
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: George Benson in a Lyric Revue variety sketch (by H.F. Ellis) - a comedian’s advice on domestic boilers. NCB Commentary - Down South, we take our domestic fuel economy seriously! Here’s a...

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  3. MESSIAH

    Date released
    Dec 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346192
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the Sheffield Singers sing Handel’s Messiah at Bilsthorpe Colliery Miners’ Welfare Hall. NCB Commentary - At Bilsthorpe Colliery Miners’ Welfare Hall, the Sheffield Singers, conducted by...

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  4. Yorkshire - PEOPLE WHO MATTER: 1) The Apprentice

    Date released
    Nov 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346310
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: importance of training of new apprentices. NCB Commentary - For the coal industry of today and tomorrow - the apprentice becomes more and more important - particularly the tradesmen - the...

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  5. ALARM

    Date released
    Jan 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345898
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: rescue training underground at a Polish mine NCB Commentary - "Fire Underground". A call that cements together miners of all nationalities. These men are Poles, but English, Scottish and Welsh...

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  6. Leicestershire - PEOPLE WHO MATTER: 2) The Rescue Superintendent

    Date released
    Jan 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346317
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: the rescue superintendent, superintendent D.G. Roberts runs one of the NCB’s rescue teams. NCB Commentary - Whenever nature strikes back in a mine, the rescue brigades are on the spot....

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  7. RETIREMENT

    Date released
    Apr 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346041
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Retiring as Secretary of the N.U.M. Mr. Arthur Horner gives an interview. NCB Commentary - A well known figure has left the coal mining scene. Mr. Arthur Horner, 44 years in the industry and...

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  8. County Durham - GEOLOGIST

    Date released
    Jan 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346359
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Don McGraw, a Coal Board Geologist, who is engaged in proving new coalfields off the Durham coast. NCB Commentary - Don McGraw is a Geologist with the Coal Board. Durham has a new coalfield -...

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  9. NEW HOMES FOR OLD

    Date released
    Jan 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346194
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Ewan MacColl sings a ballad story about the Durham Aged Mineworkers’ Homes Association’s improvements to retired miner’s homes. NCB Commentary - No commentary for this story. E. MacColl...

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  10. GOLDEN HORSES

    Date released
    Oct 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346262
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: old steam vehicles. NCB Commentary - Coal for golden horses. Kindling and coal for the old steam horse. "Defiant". Born 1913 - still puffing strong. At Shottesbrooke Park, in Berkshire, on...

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